MCA Retail Galleries: Now Open!
We’re excited to announce that Maine Craft Portland and the Center for Maine Craft are now open for public hours! YOU: Wear a mask + social distance! WE: Provide hand sanitizer and a clean safe space!
Gallery hours currently are at least 10am-5pm Monday through Saturday and will increase over the summer. Many other hours and private shopping are available by appointment. To make sure we are open, or to schedule an appointment please call / email ahead!
MCA artists: Please contact us for arranging pick-up/drop-offs (no drop-ins please)! See contact info below:
Center for Maine Craft
207-588-0021
whitney@mainecrafts.org
Maine Craft Portland
207-808-8184
maria@mainecrafts.org
VISIT + SHOP + LEARN
Maine Craft Portland is a retail gallery + resource center in the historic Mechanics Hall downtown Portland, Maine. It promotes craft in Maine through exhibitions and public programming and directly benefits Maine craft artists through sales of their work. Maine Craft Portland opened in July 2018 and exhibits and sells the work of over 130 MCA member craft artists.
2020 Hours
During COVID: Please call to learn current hours, we adjust them often but are open most days beginning July 6th
Visit Us
521 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
207-808-8184
portland@mainecrafts.org
Maria Wolff, Manager: maria@mainecrafts.org
ABOUT MAINE CRAFT PORTLAND
One decade after opening the Center for Maine Craft, a retail gallery in West Gardiner, the Maine Crafts Association established a second retail gallery + resource center: Maine Craft Portland. Since the gallery opening in July 2018, the new space has continued the MCA’s mission to introduce Maine’s craftspeople to a national audience through exhibitions and public programming in the beautiful Mechanics Hall of downtown Portland. Together the Center for Maine Craft and Maine Craft Portland represent the work of over 400 craft artists and small businesses of Maine.
HISTORICAL BUILDING MEETS MODERN MAKERS MOVEMENT
The Mechanics Hall is located in the vibrant Arts District of Portland. Across the street from Maine College of Art, blocks from the Portland Museum of Art, and home to an art supply store, it is only made more ideal by dovetailing missions of the Maine Charitable Mechanic Association and Maine Crafts Association. Mechanics Hall programming & events strengthen the MCA’s efforts and income opportunities. Maine Craft Portland represents Maine’s history of excellence in craft, reinforced by the impeccably preserved historical architecture, library, ballroom and classroom found in the levels above the retail space in this historical building.
